Art Before Breakfast

Packed with the signature can-do attitude that makes beloved artist Danny Gregory a creativity guru to thousands across the globe, this unique guide serves up a hearty helping of inspiration. For aspiring artists who want to draw and paint but just can't seem to find time in the day, Gregory offers 5– to 10–minute exercises for every skill level that fit into any schedule—whether on a plane, in a meeting, or at the breakfast table—along with practical instruction on techniques and materials, plus strategies for making work that's exciting, unintimidating, and fulfilling. Filled with Gregory's encouraging words and motivating illustrations, Art Before Breakfast teaches readers how to develop a creative habit and lead a richer life through making art.

Features selections from the sketchbooks of forty artists, illustrators, and designers that capture their travels around the world in drawings and paintings.

Danny Gregory and his wife Patti were in love. Their baby, Jack, was ten months old; life was pretty swell. And then Patti fell under a subway train and was paralyzed from the waist down. In a world where nothing seemed to have much meaning, Danny decided to teach himself to draw, and what he learned stunned him. Suddenly things had color again, and value. The result is Everyday Matters, his journal of discovery, recovery, and daily life in New York City. It is as funny, insightful, and surprising as life itself.

An insider's account—the first of its kind—of the thoroughly unconventional life of one of the twentieth century's most shockingly original painters Lucian Freud's paintings are instantly recognizable: often shocking and disturbing, his portraits convey a profound yet compelling sense of discomfort. Freud was twice married and the father of at least a dozen children, and his numerous relationships with women were the subject of much gossip—but the man himself remained a mystery. An intensely private individual (during his lifetime he prevented two planned biographies from being published), Freud's life, as well as his art, invites questions that have had no answer—until now. In Breakfast with Lucian, Geordie Greig, one of a few close friends who regularly had breakfast with the painter during the last years of his life, tells an insider's account—accessible, engaging, revealing—of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating, enigmatic, and controversial artists. Greig, who has studied his subject's work at length, unravels the tangled thread of a life lived on Freud's own uncompromising terms. Based on private conversations in which Freud held forth on everything from first love to gambling debts to the paintings of Velázquez, and informed by interviews with friends, lovers, and some of the artist's children who have never before spoken publicly about their relationships with the painter, this is a deeply personal memoir that is illuminated by a keen appreciation of Freud's art. Fresh, funny, and ultimately profound, Breakfast with Lucian is an essential portrait—one worthy of one of the greatest painters of our time. An NPR Best Book of 2013

Based upon the bestselling book by beloved author and artist Danny Gregory, this encouraging guided journal is packed with short exercises designed to help shape a life-enriching artistic habit. Open-ended prompts, visual examples, and lots of blank space for drawing make this workbook a fun, accessible entry to artmaking for anyone looking to carve out time for creativity.

The 1970's was a time when owning works of fine art became an integral part of announcing to the world that one had arrived. David Stein was an art dealer who discovered that he had a knack for creating reasonable facsimiles of works in the style of established artists- and for foisting these forgeries off upon supposed experts and connoisseurs as originals.

This work aims to introduce readers to the techniques of analytic philosophy in addition to a selection of the major topics in this field of inquiry.

Five local artists undertook the delicious project you see before you.The idea came from an e-mail outlining an exercise to increase creativity by completing a painting a day. Sounds easy enough for an artist. However, life gets in the way for them as for anyone, and too often they find they aren't painting as prolifically as they want to.They decided on a theme to remove the pressure of finding a new subject every day, giving them more time to concentrate on the simple act of painting. They would paint their individual breakfasts on 8" x 8" canvas panels and limit their painting time to 90 minutes, thus making it a true exercise and not a day of work. What it became was an adventure of exploring breakfast with taste, touch, paint and brush - and a bit of a lesson in perseverance.The paintings you see before you are seven days of breakfasts from five very different artists. If just one of them makes you think about breakfast in a different way, then the artists have done their job!